Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

SCLC

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Question 2

SNCC

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Question 3

NAACP

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Question 4

Brown vs. Board of Ed.

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Question 5

Thurgood Marshall

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Question 6

Emmett Till

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Question 7

Martin Luthor King Jr

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Question 8

Malcolm X

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Question 9

Rosa Parks

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Question 10

Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Question 11

The Nation of Islam

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Question 12

JFK

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Question 13

1964 Civil Rights Act

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Question 14

1965 Voting Rights Act

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Question 15

1968 Civil Rights Act

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Question 16

De facto segregation

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Question 17

De jure segregation

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Question 18

What basic protesting policy did SCLC, SNCC and the NAACP have in common? Why did they adhere to this policy? What were the drawbacks to this policy?

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Question 19

At the March on Washington in 1963 there was a deep rift between the older and younger movement organizers. What was this rift about and how did it signal a split in the movement moving forward?

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Question 20

What previous Supreme Court case did Brown overturn? What was the decision in Brown 1954? What was the decision in Brown 1955 and why was that wording so important?

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Question 21

Aside from the outcome for schools, why was the decision in Brown so important to the Movement?

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Question 22

What happened to Emmett Till and the men accused of the crime? Why did his mother want an open casket funeral and why was that decision so important?

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Question 23

What did Rosa Parks and the NAACP start and what gave them the legal backing to do this? Why was this event so important nationally?

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Question 24

Why was the Kennedy administration so slow to get involved in the Civil Rights Movement? What finally pushed it to get involved?

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Question 25

What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and what did it do? How did it help enforce the decision in Brown?

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Question 26

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do? What about the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

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Question 27

How were the ideas and tactics of the Nation of Islam different that those of the other civil rights organizations? Why do you think the Nation never gained broad support among most civil rights supporters? Why was it seen so negatively by white society?

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Question 28

What were the pros and cons of the Nation of Islam’s teachings and tactics?

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Question 29

What’s the difference between de jure and de facto segregation? Which is still around today? Why?

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